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Title: SystemBurn: Principles of Design and Operation Release 3.0

Abstract

As high performance computing technology progresses toward the progressively more extreme scales required to address critical computational problems of both national and global interest, power and cooling for these extreme scale systems is becoming a growing concern. A standardized methodology for testing system requirements under maximal system load and validating system environmental capability to meet those requirements is critical to maintaining system stability and minimizing power and cooling risks for high end data centers. Moreover, accurate testing permits the high end data center to avoid issues of under- or over-provisioning power and cooling capacity saving resources and mitigating hazards. Previous approaches to such testing have employed an ad hoc collection of tools, which have been anecdotally perceived to produce a heavy system load. In this report, we present SystemBurn, a software tool engineered to allow a system user to methodically create a maximal system load on large scale systems for the purposes of testing and validation.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. ORNL
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
Work for Others (WFO)
OSTI Identifier:
1050395
Report Number(s):
ORNL/TM-2012/386
400890000; TRN: US201218%%998
DOE Contract Number:  
DE-AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; CAPACITY; DESIGN; PERFORMANCE; STABILITY; TESTING; VALIDATION; COMPUTERS; COMPUTER CODES; PROGRAMMING; systemburn; benchmark

Citation Formats

Dobson, Jonathan D, Kuehn, Jeffery A, Poole, Stephen W, Hodson, Stephen W, Glandon, Steven R, Reister, David B, Lewkow, Nicholas R, and Peek, Jacob T. SystemBurn: Principles of Design and Operation Release 3.0. United States: N. p., 2012. Web. doi:10.2172/1050395.
Dobson, Jonathan D, Kuehn, Jeffery A, Poole, Stephen W, Hodson, Stephen W, Glandon, Steven R, Reister, David B, Lewkow, Nicholas R, & Peek, Jacob T. SystemBurn: Principles of Design and Operation Release 3.0. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1050395
Dobson, Jonathan D, Kuehn, Jeffery A, Poole, Stephen W, Hodson, Stephen W, Glandon, Steven R, Reister, David B, Lewkow, Nicholas R, and Peek, Jacob T. 2012. "SystemBurn: Principles of Design and Operation Release 3.0". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1050395. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1050395.
@article{osti_1050395,
title = {SystemBurn: Principles of Design and Operation Release 3.0},
author = {Dobson, Jonathan D and Kuehn, Jeffery A and Poole, Stephen W and Hodson, Stephen W and Glandon, Steven R and Reister, David B and Lewkow, Nicholas R and Peek, Jacob T},
abstractNote = {As high performance computing technology progresses toward the progressively more extreme scales required to address critical computational problems of both national and global interest, power and cooling for these extreme scale systems is becoming a growing concern. A standardized methodology for testing system requirements under maximal system load and validating system environmental capability to meet those requirements is critical to maintaining system stability and minimizing power and cooling risks for high end data centers. Moreover, accurate testing permits the high end data center to avoid issues of under- or over-provisioning power and cooling capacity saving resources and mitigating hazards. Previous approaches to such testing have employed an ad hoc collection of tools, which have been anecdotally perceived to produce a heavy system load. In this report, we present SystemBurn, a software tool engineered to allow a system user to methodically create a maximal system load on large scale systems for the purposes of testing and validation.},
doi = {10.2172/1050395},
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place = {United States},
year = {Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012},
month = {Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012}
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